Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-04-08
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

"A number of Indiana. Pa, young
ladies visited Pittsburg rolling mill
a few day S ago, to see how iron was
made, and the first thing they asked
to see was the squeeZer.
-Clearfield county boasts tina t
whereas at one time it bad eleven toll
bridges now it has none, the county
having bought them all and made
. the III free.
A party of Altoona Spiritualists
nearly dug away the foundation Of
mans house, near Johnstown, hunt
ing for pot of gold which medium
declared was buried there
The report Of the auditors of
Mercer county for 1886 shows the to-
tai receipts to have been Sl05, 429 81,
and the disbursements S9S, ,439 IS,
leaving a cash balance in the treasury
of SG,999 rs.
Thirty thousand lake trout from
the State Fish Hatchery at Cory,
were placed in Conneaut Lake last
Thursday. The fish vary from half
an inch to two inches in length.
1t is asserted that Charles Will
son, of Mount Pleasant, Westmore-
land county, who is not Is years of
age, has patented an electrical contri-
vance for transmitting packages, and
for which, it is said, he has been Of
fered $4,000
The large planning mill of Kreps
Bros, Greenville, was burned on
Wednesday morning, with a large
amount of lumber The loss is esti-
mated at $40, 900, with no insurance,
the rate being so bigh-eight per
cent-that they took the risk Itwas
owned by Col. W, A. and D. d.
Kreps.
Landlord Nickum of New Castle
evidently does not want the patron
age of anyone who had signed re-
monstrance against a liquor license
being granted him On Friday two
signers entered his bar and asked for
drinks, but were refused for the above
reason Both the men denied having
signed any such paper, but when Mr.
Nickum produced copy of the docu-
ment they "wilted', aud said they bad
forgotten the occurrence. At any
rate they didn't get the "tangle-
| foot"
A Huntingdon county man
claims to have pumpkin raised 10
1885, which is as sound as the day it
was taken from the vine
One of the leading lawyers of a
city not thousand miles from Chi
cago, while elcquently arguing a case
OF great interest is said to have used
the following beautiful phraseology
when this slander, gentlemen of
the jury, reaches the strong arm Of
the law, it will kick away every ob
stacle and with its lips declare, No
sir, no, stree, SIR"
"Let 'er Co." is the terse name Of
station on the Wilkesbarre & West
ern railroad
A COW belonging to S NJ Teach
out, of Coldwater, Mich, opened the
door of her owners house one night
recently, climbed the stairs and took
nap in the spare bed room where
she was found the next morning,
The biggest dog in America is in
New York City. The animal is a
Danish blood hound, aged % months;
is nine feet long and five feet high
from the tip of his nose to the ground
"A man in Polk county. Ga, is
enjoying life with eighth wife.
Miss Jennie Gray works farm
of $50 acres in Bottineau county, ID
T., and says she could work another
one if the fellows who want to marry
her would settle down and quit both
ering her.
"A wind storm not long ago
blew over large strawstack on the
farm of John StraWn, near Orleans,
ILL.,, and buried under it steer. At
ter thirteen days, the other cattle
having eaten the fallen straw, the
steer walked out.
The Pittsburgh club now num-
bers Is members, whose pay amounts
to over S35, ,000 for this season.
-Eech one of a band of Indian
squaws, which came into Bangor, d
T., recently invested in pair of
corsets, and departed supremely
happy.
Albert Nickerson, of Sag Har-
Dor, L. L., is II years old. Every
day he sits down to the table with
his father and mother, grandfather
aud grandmother and great-grand-
father and two great-grandmothers.
-Hurr Krupp, the great gun
manufacturer, is going to start
daily newspaper at Essen, for the in
struction OF his 10000 workmeh,
Captain Kidd's treasure has
been definitely located at last. II
lies underneath the sands on the
beach at Upper Nyack.
Two Oil City idots had cigar
cite smoking match the other day.
and the winner smoked one a minute
for an hour.
"A peculiar medium has been
discovered in a-year- old girl OF Min
neapolis, who never learned to write,
but in trance state writes, from
right to left, messages from spirit
land to her visitors.
A Horrible Death.